2011 Schedule
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks
- David W. Blight, Yale University
9:15 - 10:45 a.m. Opening Roundtable: State of the Field
- James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center, “When Everybody Was Wrong”
- Eve M. Troutt Powell, University of Pennsylvania, “The Different Endings of Slavery in the Ottoman Middle East”
- Eric Foner, Columbia University, “Emancipation and Its Aftermath: The State of the Field”
- Vincent Brown, Duke University, “Escaping Slavery: Political Strategy Under the Maroon Metaphor”
- Moderator: Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Emancipation and Politics
- Kate Masur, Northwestern University, West Point and the Problem of Equality
- Chandra Manning, Georgetown University, Will Work for Citizenship
- Brandi C. Brimmer, University of Maryland, College Park, Recovering the Political Vision of Poor Black Women in the Late-Nineteenth Century South
- Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Emancipation and Ideology
- Dylan C. Penningroth, Northwestern University, Beasts and Blood: Legacies of Slavery in Colonial Ghana
- Susan Eva O’Donovan, University of Memphis, Writing Slavery into Freedom’s Story: Mobility and Messages in the Late Antebellum South
- Allyson Hobbs, Stanford University, “A Grave Social Question Has Arisen”: Interracial Encounters and Racial Identity in Reconstruction-Era Washington, D.C.
- Moderator: Greg Downs, City College of New York
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Emancipation and Borders
- Sandra Gunning, University of Michigan, The Deadly Voyage of the Allanshaw: Rebellion, Indenture, and Sex Across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans
- Jim Downs, Connecticut College, Contraband Camps and Indian Reservations: Federal Authority Beyond the Reconstruction South
- Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania, The South, the West, and the Imperial State
- Moderator: James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Emancipation and Violence
- Carole Emberton, SUNY Buffalo, The Militarization of Freedom
- Hannah Rosen, University of Michigan, Writing the History of Postemancipation Violence
- Justin Behrend, SUNY Geneseo, Overthrowing Local Democracies: The Political Geography of Reconstruction Violence in the Natchez District
- Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Coffee break
3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Concluding Roundtable: New Directions in the Field
- Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University, “Free Black Men”
- Thavolia Glymph, Duke University, “The Liberty to be Free: The Problem of Freedom as a Problem of American Exceptionalism”
- Greg Downs, City College of New York, Emancipated into the Necessary, Impossible Arms of the State: Governance and the Limits of Liberation
- Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University